This weekend was an amazing weekend, whenever I go out into nature, I just feel the presence of God, and this weekend was no exception, I took Kayla and a friend to a nature reserve for the weekend, we had lots of rest and relaxation which is just what I needed, after having a volcanic eruption at work on Thursday, or was it a glacial melt down............ mmmmm
I just don't know my own strength....... did you see it move you must have seen it move...... did you........ did you........
What an example this tree sets, that against all odds, it is growing........ what have we got to complain about..........
This was the most dangerous animal there, Kayla and my car, I used the time to give her some driving practice......... go figure even if you take your foot of the accelerator and your going down hill the car doesn't stop........ ever tried free wheeling down a hill round a corner and through a donga................ scary scary............
You go first, no you go first........
Are you sure I can go first................
Just get it over with...........................
And then it took a step forward and we ran for the car....... the horns were a bit more than we were willing to risk.......
The views were amazing, you could see the African bush for ........ as far as you could see, kilometers of nothing but bush...........
Is the ball actually supposed to stay on the carpet.......... why didn't someone tell me............
MMMMMMMMM just what the doctor ordered..............
A journey into changing who you are, so you can find true peace with your life

Monday, September 13, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Dog Whisperer
On Friday when we came home from work, Levy was barking at something outside so Kira went out to investigate and there was a black and white dog, it was so frightened that it ran behind the wall, and hid among the reeds, Kira and Kayla tried to get it out but nothing could convince it to come out. I had seen nothing of this so when Kayla called me to have a look what type of dog it was it was already going dark............ I thought it was a rabbit, and phoned Kira to ask her whether she was sure it was a dog.............. "Mom it growled at me, do rabbits growl" ........... okay now we know it is definately a dog...... there was nothing we could do so we left it there and as soon as it was light in the morning....... Kayla did her impersonation of Ceaser Milan "The Dog Whisperer" and went in to recover the dog.
Well she had to go in, on her haunches, cutting the reeds that were between the wall and the fence as she went, she had heard that you have to go in backwards so the dog does not feel any threat......... she went in with the collar like a lasso so that she could put it over the dog's head as soon as she was close enough.......... what would we do with out TV and Ceaser Milan. Kayla being Kayla had convinced herself that this dog could be rabid............... that it could have crept away to have babies............. that it could have been frightened by 4 young "high" boys she had seen walking down the road.......... you have to be prepared for all eventualities................
Well as it turned out it was a terrified Boston Terrior a cute little thing shaking like a leaf, obviously something or someone had really frightened it ......... he had neither a collar or a name tag, so we went through to the vets to see if they knew perhaps who the owners were, we called the SPCA to see if anyone had phoned to report it missing............ no luck........ so it looks like we might have a new addition to the family. Levy thinks he has died and gone to heaven someone to play with at last ....... Rocky the cat is quite tolerant not amused but tolerant............ but Peroni the "wild" cat that Levy found for us when it was a few weeks old ............ well he is just having nothing of this, he keeps on creeping up on the dog from behind I think he has heard it is very frightened, and is using this information to frighten the poor thing to death............ the only way we could get him to sleep last night was to cover him completely with a blanket so he was completely hidden.............
Kayla is very proud of herself to say the least, and as this little dog, becomes part of our family and worms its way into our hearts............. we are hoping that its owners don't come and claim him back............ We have named him Sydney.................
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Broken telephone
Have you ever played the game broken telephone....... when you have a group of people, you whisper something into the ear of the person next to you and then see what it comes out as when it has been passed on to a few people........ well I have first hand knowledge of this game, so much so that it took about 5 years off my life , ............
Last Saturday I was working in the garden, when I heard the land line ringing, I "ran' inside and the phone of course stopped just as I picked it up, I mean really why wouldn't it..... why does this always happen, it is like someone is watching you and knows exactly when to put the phone down.......... I checked my cell phone, and there was 5 missed calls from my eldest daughter Kira .......... Just then my friend Veronica phoned, she .................. and so the fun began........
Kayla wanted to talk to me, was spending the weekend at Veronica, and this is the conversation that I got.........."Can I please phone the fire brigade the house at the farm is on fire, Kira has been trying to get hold of me, but couldn't so she phoned me thinking we were together" Well I was out of the house like greased lightning............. As I was phoning the emergency services, I was heading towards the fire station , I live if Africa...... and often you get people who answer the phone at the fire station, police station, home affairs office who are "English or Afrikaans Challenged"..... As luck would have it for once I got through first time, told the radio operator that it was emergency, they assured me they would sent a fire truck straight away........ so with emergency lights flashing....... hooter hooting............... I raced towards the farm........... from the distance I could see the black smoke, and my heart just sank....................
Well as I rounded the corner I could immediately see the house was not on fire, the flames were off to the side close to the stables.... only the grass next to the stables, and also a pile of tyres that someone has put against the fence were on fire, at the same time two fire engines came speeding up the drive way..................... to put out a grass fire........................ boy was my face red......well they helped to put put the fire, and laughed at all the drama............... probably laughing because now they could send me a bill.............
What Kira had actually said to Kayla was..... "There is a fire I am to lazy to walk back to the house to get the emergency number do you have it" and Kayla changed that to the house was on fire........... well for the next 3 hours I had everyone I knew phoning to ask about the fire..... Kayla had phoned everyone to try and get the number.............. now we have put it in our phones............ we have learnt the lesson.... The South African 999 is 10111 unfortunately the number is never answered................. so you have to phone the station direct..........
Kira and I spent the rest of the afternnoon, puting out all the smoking "horse dungs" just in case a wind came up and flamed the grass into flames again................
We can laugh about it now............ but believe me it was not funny at the time..............
Sunday, August 29, 2010
New beginnings
Be very, very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever........ You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen (Eileen Caddy)
A sincere word of thanks to you all for your prayers, and encouragement.......... I couldn't have done it without you all,a big thanks to my "bestest" friend, for always showing me that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, ............ I have had three amazing weeks, weeks in which the messages I received were no less than a miracle.......................... I have always been something of a power freak............ yes no kidding, but over the last few years have more and more given things to God including my divorce, and everything went smoothly, no fights, no arguing, everything falling into place. But then I got a bee in my bonnet and in the words of old " Blue Eyes" I tried to do the division of assets "MY WAY" and all hell broke loose, the accusations, the retaliations, the evil spitting forth of insult for insult, I tried to get the division of assets through the courts and doing this we would have lost more than half of everything...... I started to believe the things that "The Ex One" was saying, I started to doubt my Christianity, I started to doubt by faith, I started to doubt my self................... and found myself in a downward spiral a dark place where i didn't want to be.... and then God took over.............
Two weeks ago at our cell, we watched a DVD of Louis Giglio, it is my DVD I have had it for about 5 months and never got around to watching it........... well, maybe I should have watched it sooner, but maybe God was saving it just for a time such as this, it was about no matter what you have done God loves you......... you are an awesome being, Holy Spirit in You, Christs blood covering you, and God taking care of everything .........wow.................... Next morning i get to work and my daily inspirational message is "God didn't say No, he said not Yet" ........................... and then on Sunday the message was John 1: 12, " Yet to those who received Him, to those who believed in His Name, He gave the right to become children of God" ............... and I said............ " I read you loud and clear Lord................. " It was as if a peace came over me, a realisation that i am never alone. "The Ex One" no longer wakes me every night when he comes home, In fact although we share the same house I can go days without seeing him................ I get to be at home, and he has to go out to his new " family."...... but every night he leaves her to come back here......... and I thought i was living a life of hell......
And as i sit here on my beloved verandah, the first time in months, the first time since the onset of winter, it is just a few days from the first day of Spring, as I watch the birds eating from the bird feeder and see the new green leaves on the trees, the spots of colour in the garden from the seedlings that I planted in anticipation of just a day like this ........... I realise that this is the season of New Beginnings, it is the season of Hope, the season of change, the season of new growth, the season of colour, of new life, it is time to take off the old and put on the new, it is time to leave the past behind and more on to the furture........ Gods timing is perfect I am through the Winter, and how amazing to have Spring, with all its beauty only a few days away........................
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Sabatical
I have read through a few of my recent blogs and realise that I need to do some soul searching, that I am not in a good place right now, I am battling at work, battling at home, and now battling with my youngest daughter, so can not really share anything positive, so I am going to spend some time trying to sort through this mess that has become my life............... and prayerfully will find the peace that i am looking for, but I will pop into your blogs and say hi from time to time.............. God Bless ..........
Friday, August 6, 2010
Half and Half
Never be afraid to tread the path alone know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you, do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps
As children one of this first things our parents teach us is that we have to share, to share our toys, to share our sweets, to share the love of our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters........... we are taught to share no matter how hard it is....... we are taught to share.......... because well mannered children, always share without tears, without tantrums, without getting a hiding.......... we are taught to share.......
At what point in our lives do we forget this lesson and want to keep things for ourselves....... at what point does it become impossible to share, at what point do we become capitalists wanting more..... more.... more.... it becomes almost impossible to give something to someone else even though not only by law it is their right, but by the rules of fair play it is what they deserve ..................
How do you even begin to share 30 years of your life spent with one person, 30 years of memorabilia, 30 years of photos, 30 years of memories........... does he keep the good memories and you keep the bad ones, or visa versa....... or do you halve the memories he keeps the first 15 years and you the last 15 years , or maybe you share them by alternate years, so you each get some of the good and some of the bad memories ........ or should one keep the Christmas memories and the other the Easter memories......... how do you share a life time...........
According to law everything should be halved but this is easier said than done........ the concept is easy the assets are worth "X" and half of "X' is ............. but each wants to hold on to whatever they can.......... now as adults we become worse than children............... and the lessons so painstakingly taught by our parents are forgotten as we become "mercenaries" out to get everything that we can.......
Somehow, we have to dig deep to go deep inside and find those children........ to find the lessons taught long ago that well mannered children..... always share...............
Monday, August 2, 2010
Musical Notes
Lets start from the very beginning, a very good place to start when you read you begin with ABC when you sing you begin with Doe Ray Me, the first three notes just happen to be Doe Ray Me.............
I cannot believe how quickly the woman's ministry tea's come around, a couple of Saturdays ago, it was time for another one, and the theme this time was musical notes..... and yes everything was about music. My friend Cherry and I organise a tea 4 times a year, and I drive her nuts, God is good, just as the arrangements for the tea we are doing are finished then he gives me the theme for the next one........
Why do we as woman, think that we have to act grown up....... when deep down inside we are all children who want to be protected, wanted to be loved unconditionally and really want to get down and dirty and have some fun......... who says that Christians are miserable party poopers......... they just never have been to HMC............
We first took all the ladies back to Sunday school remember all those songs with the actions, well we had 30 ladies doing just that................. and boy did they look ridiculous........... and did we laugh, in the beginning they were a "little stiff" but by the third song........ well what can i say......... they did their Sunday school teachers proud.
Then we played a game, where I would give them the first few notes of a song, and they had to guess what song it was.................. with different points, depending on how many notes they needed to recognise the songs........... and I trusted them to do their own marking, and points........ mmmm...... lets just hope that they all put their Christian values to good use........ mmmmmmmm... choosing the songs was something of a problem and then I found a CD that had all the best songs on from well known musicals, I had to have a quick course on how to do this on my lap top, and with some help pulled it off........... and learnt a new skill as well, what more can we ask for..
Pass the parcel was a riot, with people doing everything not to be stuck with the parcel when the music finished, at the end of the day, we are all children at heart.
Kareoke, well Idols have got nothing on us....... give these ladies a microphone and you can't get them off the floor, we played in teams of four and as I didn't have 4 microphones, the "things" people are holding in their hands are sweets, that just happen to look like microphones...
And then the grand finale........... musical chairs.................. oh my goodness............. the sweetest of ladies became ......... well ............. I was very surprised, in the "heat" of the moment one of the ladies landed on the floor as she was "gently" pushed off the chair, and there were a number of "moments" when the "larger" ladies claimed their chairs.........
Lots of laughter and lots of fun..................... and more than anything a building block in the uniting of the sisters of Christ.......... we all at the end of the day want the same things, to be accepted for who we are........... warts and all.
Why do we as woman, think that we have to act grown up....... when deep down inside we are all children who want to be protected, wanted to be loved unconditionally and really want to get down and dirty and have some fun......... who says that Christians are miserable party poopers......... they just never have been to HMC............
We first took all the ladies back to Sunday school remember all those songs with the actions, well we had 30 ladies doing just that................. and boy did they look ridiculous........... and did we laugh, in the beginning they were a "little stiff" but by the third song........ well what can i say......... they did their Sunday school teachers proud.
Then we played a game, where I would give them the first few notes of a song, and they had to guess what song it was.................. with different points, depending on how many notes they needed to recognise the songs........... and I trusted them to do their own marking, and points........ mmmm...... lets just hope that they all put their Christian values to good use........ mmmmmmmm... choosing the songs was something of a problem and then I found a CD that had all the best songs on from well known musicals, I had to have a quick course on how to do this on my lap top, and with some help pulled it off........... and learnt a new skill as well, what more can we ask for..
Pass the parcel was a riot, with people doing everything not to be stuck with the parcel when the music finished, at the end of the day, we are all children at heart.
Kareoke, well Idols have got nothing on us....... give these ladies a microphone and you can't get them off the floor, we played in teams of four and as I didn't have 4 microphones, the "things" people are holding in their hands are sweets, that just happen to look like microphones...
And then the grand finale........... musical chairs.................. oh my goodness............. the sweetest of ladies became ......... well ............. I was very surprised, in the "heat" of the moment one of the ladies landed on the floor as she was "gently" pushed off the chair, and there were a number of "moments" when the "larger" ladies claimed their chairs.........
Lots of laughter and lots of fun..................... and more than anything a building block in the uniting of the sisters of Christ.......... we all at the end of the day want the same things, to be accepted for who we are........... warts and all.
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